[Text] 1st Flame

[cirquedeignis]

[Zioryle has arrived to the city a little while ago, and had some nice citizen help him out with the COMP network, but other than that, seemed to get too scared to answer about the city's condition. Here's a newcomer being unsure of the place.]

Sorry if this sounds rude, but what's up with the city looking so broken? I know enough that I'm not in my home world, but opening my eyes to see broken buildings around town isn't what I call a good morning call as far as I know.

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[trainwrecking]

Ah, you're new? You must have missed the attack.

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[cirquedeignis]

An attack? So you guys have an enemy. Figures, the citizen I talked to was so scared they couldn't answer when I asked.

Some places look like an aftermath of a war zone. Should I say I'm lucky I didn't come any sooner?

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[trainwrecking]

I suppose so... Forgive me for saying so, but you seem kinda unfazed by all this. You're not worried?

[Of course, this is text, so it's a little harder to pick up on tone.]

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[cirquedeignis]

I guess you can say I only look I'm taking things fine because I resorted to writing out my responses. Plus it's no use if I'm screaming my head off to get answers, right?

The place I came from had a similar feeling as here, so I guess there's that too... Just not as bad as here.

[trainwrecking]

... The city could use more rational people.

[That's close to a compliment. He's been spending too much time with accidental children or complete morons lately...]

A similar feeling? Y-you mean broken, or with weird things happening on a semi-regular basis?

[cirquedeignis]

You make it sound like the other "visitors" are complete morons.

The latter actually, although I was recently told it's more broken than I thought just before ending up here.

[trainwrecking]

N...o, it's just...

[Stupidity is like a vacuum. There may only be a few central points of idiocy, but they demolish everything in their paths, leaving nothing but the lingering feeling of loss and, well, stupidity.

Sometimes it's just hard to be around one really dumb person.]

... some of them are kinda stupid, yeah. And if you're used to weird things happening, you'll probably fit right in.

[cirquedeignis]

[While Zio can't really understand where you're coming from, if he met some of the most idiotic people you know, he'd probably feel sorry for you.]

I wouldn't say I'm used to it in the sense that I'll jump in and help out without a second thought, but thanks. If I came before whatever caused this wreck, I'd have said I would like this place better than my home world, actually.

Oh, my name is Zioryle by the way. Nice to meet you.

[trainwrecking]

Ah, you don't have to jump in immediately. Most people don't. Maybe when things are back to normal...

[Huh, that doesn't sound like a familiar name.]

Just Zioryle? [Otonashi, you should probably give your name too.]

[cirquedeignis]

[He kind of feels embarrassed of this. If Otonashi hadn't said that, Zio would have probably unconsciously started to act like his more impulsive friend.]

That's true.

And yeah, just Zioryle. Is it that weird?

[He hasn't thought much of it before, names were the least of their concerns back in his home world, when people were more paranoid of spirits and demons.]

[trainwrecking]

No, just curious. Right, I should give a fair warning -- be careful if you stay out late. The city gets overrun with creatures.

It, uh, sounds weird. I know.

[cirquedeignis]

Creatures, huh? They sound nice enough that they only show up during a certain time.

Well you'll have to deal with my "weird" name then. It's you humans who get so focused on naming everything.

[Someone sounds a little hurt their name was called "weird."]

[trainwrecking]

[He blinks, confused. Why the strong reaction? Oh, did he really--]

No, I didn't mean you! I-I meant it was weird that monsters systematically appear every night!

[cirquedeignis]

[Way to misunderstand, Zio. He hit himself for such a stupid reaction and it takes a while for him to respond.]

Oh.

Yeah, that's weird.